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Local briefs UO officials say they haven’t received a request to return Grayson donation Nearly a month after a court-ap pointed state officer released a report demanding the University return donations made by Jeffrey Grayson over the past five years, University officials say they have yet to receive a written request for the money. Melinda Grier, the University gen eral counsel, said University officials will consider any official request. “Obviously, we would take some thing like that seriously,” Grier said. “But until we get a letter we couldn’t speculate about what would happen. ” Grayson donated $800,000 to the University, according to receiver Thomas Lennon. Lennon believes that the money should be returned to the state because it was taken out of fees charged to clients by Capital Con sultants, a Portland investment firm. Grayson, the former chairman of the company, is accused of using money taken from Capital Consul tants clients to fund personal ex penses and philanthropic projects. The U.S. Department of Labor and the Securities and Exchange Com mission shut down Capital Consul tants several months ago after inves tigators began to suspect the firm of mishandling union pension funds and making fraudulent investments. In 1997, the University renamed Grayson Hall in honor of Grayson and his wife, Susan, after the couple promised to donate $1.5 million to the University. Officials with the University of Oregon Foundation, which handles donations made to the school, have not publicly commented on how much of the money pledged by the Graysons has been received. -By Kara Cogswell Erb Essentials adopts stricter policies on checking ID Graduate students and high school students alike now need identification in tow every time they buy tobacco at the Erb Essentials store in the EMU. EMU Director Dusty Miller said the store recently applied for a new tobacco license from the city, and with the new license came strict rules on checking identification, even though most students are over 18 years old. Miller said the license also carries heavy consequences for stores that sell tobacco to minors. Erb Essentials’ counters and win dows are now adorned with stickers declaring the store part of the na tional “We Card” program. -By Jeremy Lang Vineyard kicks off classic film series Hinman Vineyards begins its first classic film series Wednesday with “Adam’sRib,”starringSpencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The show starts at dusk and will be presented on a large screen on a sloping grass field at the vineyard. “Dial M for Murder” will follow on July 25, and “The Sev en Year Itch” on Aug. 29. Admission is $8, which includes the film, wine tasting and hors d’oeuvres. On other Wednesday nights, the vineyard will feature a variety of mu sical entertainment, and admission to those events is $5. The vineyard is located at 27012 Briggs Hill Road, 10 miles southwest of Eugene. F or more information, call 345-1954orvisitsilvanridge.com. -By Jeremy Lang Northwest Film Center seeks student productions The Portland Art Museum’s Northwest Film Center is looking for student films, shorts and documen taries for its 28th annual festival. Stu dents in western states and British Columbia are eligible. The deadline is Aug. 1. For more information and entry forms, log on to nwfilm.org. -By Jeremy Lang Coquille Indian Tribe donates funds for new library collection The Coquille Indian Tribe has do nated $10,000 to create a new collec tion of documents, maps and micro film at the Knight Library. The documents, recently discovered among the Smithsonian Institution’s National Anthropological Archives and National Archives in Washington, D.C., detail the history of Northwest Indian tribes and their interactions with the United States. The docu ments can be found in the library’s Di vision of Special Collections. -By Jeremy Lang Oregon brief Democrats stage walkout over redistricting plan SALEM. Ore. — Democrats brought half of the Oregon Legisla ture to a halt Monday by refusing to meet until majority Republicans back off in a fight over redistricting. House Minority Leader Dan Gard ner of Portland said the Democrats would refuse to provide a quorum to do business until Republicans scrap a tactic to push through a redistricting plan that would bypass Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber. Two-thirds of the 60 House mem bers, or 40, have to be present to do business. Republicans control the chamber on a 32-27 count, with one independent. Gardner, D-Portland, said only two Democrats came to the Capitol on Monday. If a redistricting plan is not enact ed by June 30, the state constitution says the task of redrawing legislative districts goes to Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, a Democrat. Lawmakers have adopted a Re publican-backed plan for reshaping legislative districts that’s opposed by all Democrats, and Kitzhaber says he won’t sign any plan that lacks bi partisan support. Republicans pushed a measure out of committee Friday that would put the GOP-backed plan into a res olution, which, unlike abill, would n’t go to the governor. Gardner said a law can’t be passed without the governor participating. House Speaker Mark Simmons had no immediate comment on the development. 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